Canada is said to be lagging behind other countries when it comes to preparation for and research into the illness
“It is predicted that long-term COVID will lead to a substantive and sustained impact on our health system,” Senator Stan Kutcher told a long COVID awareness conference this week. “And let’s remember this is a system that can be currently characterized as running on empty.”
“We have to start moving very quickly to make the changes in our health-care system to enhance capacity because long COVID will put additional strain on the system and the people who work in it,” he said. Organizers said Canada has work to do to even define and understand the scope of long COVID in the country.Article content
Ontario’s COVID-19 Science Advisory Table estimated earlier this year that between 57,000 and 78,000 people in the province have experienced Post-Acute COVID-19 Syndrome, another name for long COVID. That range is likely to have grown.Article content The Public Health Ontario review found a prevalence of PACS ranging from about 51 per cent to 80 per cent of patients following COVID-19.
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